Columnar structure in bulk heterojunction in solution-processable three-layered p-i-n organic photovoltaic devices using tetrabenzoporphyrin precursor and silylmethyl[60]fullerene.

A new solution-processable fabrication protocol using a soluble tetrabenzoporphyrin (BP) precursor and bis(dimethylphenylsilylmethyl)[60]fullerene (SIMEF) created three-layered p-i-n photovoltaic devices, in which the i-layer possesses a well-defined bulk heterojunction structure in which columnar BP crystals grow vertically from the bottom p-layer. The device showed a power conversion efficiency of 5.2% (V(OC) = 0.75 V; J(SC) = 10.5 mA/cm(2); FF = 0.65).

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